Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles - My name is Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish. My name is Billie Eilish. [upbeat music] This is getting out of hand, I am Billie Eilish. I'm doing this shit till I'm 90. So get ready for it. I think it's October 18th, 2017. It's October 18th, 2018. October 18th, 2019. October 18th, 2020. I'm 15. I'm 16. I'm 17. I'm 18. I have 257,000. I have 6.3 million. 40.7 million. 67.5 million. Where are these people coming from? Like that's my question. The most followed person that follows me is Chloe Grace Moretz. Katy Perry maybe. Justin Bieber. Ariana Grande my baby, with 204 million followers. It's a picture of me and Charli XCX. Isn't it the one about me smiling. 10 million, that's a lot. Five grummys, won five grummies [laughs]. Wow, I will be 18, I never thought I'd be 18. Hopefully I look fly. What is that quote? Well, I have accepted the things I cannot change, and well I have changed the things that I cannot accept. It's a good thing think about. What changes? You know, what endings? What new beginnings? [Billie laughing] Oh God that's did not age well. Girl, please. [Billie laughing] Talk about what's gonna change, what's gonna be different? [Billie laughing] Your whole life will have gone. But not just you everyone because coronavirus. Definitely not where I thought that I would be currently, but I'm also not mad at it. I'm very, very lucky to have had this year play out the way it did, because for a lot of people, it was literal hell, and I'm very aware that I have been pretty blessed for the fortune that I've had this year. Even though the year has sucked, it's still, you know, whatever, we're alive still, you know. I don't know, the thing is like I don't really have any free time, but then also kind of, it's weird, I contradict myself, because I kind of don't really like having a day off, because I get off the hustle, [laughs] I get out of the groove. You know, I get out of like my vibe. I hope, whatever amount of off days I want next year I get. Like if I want 100 off days next year, I hope I get that. I hope I'm listened to. That's basically it. I really said 100 days, 100 days I said. Oh, you got what you wish for, you happy? [Billie laughing] You happy, coz damn. This is the most amount of time off that I've had in, you know, five years now. I think that goes for a lot of people, but that was even true for like the first month of quarantine. You know, we had three weeks off and I was like, wow, this is the most time off I've ever had. I can't believe it. It's so great, it's like a free vacation. And it'll we'll go right back out on tour in a week. And we'll be fine. And clearly we were all wrong with that. And we look like clowns now. But I will say I have made and created things that I don't think I ever would have created without this period of time. This amount of time and this is just life itself. I would like things to be normal though. Again, I would like that. But I will say that I'm grateful for what it's given me. I really wanted to go on that world tour. We started it, got three shows in canceled, flew back home. I really wanted to get a Lamborghini. But I have a Lamborghini. It's not that I couldn't have I just there were so many other things that were so much more important. There's more people to give that money to. There's way more and I cannot stress it enough way more important things going on than the fucking Lamborghini. So one thing I have now that I did not have a year ago, is my little pooch puppy shark. Shark. This is shark my son. He is so silly like oh he's wagging his tail. This is shark didn't have him a year ago because he's only eight months old. Alright, I'll let you go bud. The people that support me. My fans, which I don't like to call fans, you know, my family. You know, finishing this album and doing the most crazy shows like I'm capable of doing in the next month. Maintaining my happiness which I've been experiencing for like the first time in many years. I want to stay happy. That's a big goal for me. So cute I love that those are all very genuine, those were 100% what I was feeling very strongly. It's so weird like what we take for granted like I would never have thought that I wouldn't be able to do shows one day, you know. So much time spent me dreading to, dreading press, dreading this, dreading that. And like I had no idea that I was dreading something that I would one day not even be legally allowed to do. Like that's what's crazy to me. The shows are like the one thing that I feel like I've ever been good at. I know that sounds stupid but it's like the only thing I've ever done that made me feel like I belonged. Maybe it's cliche, I don't know. Lord keeping my family safe and, you know, staying up there isn't much else to do right now. Everything matters differently now than a year ago. Honestly everything I really can't even think of one thing like all the things that I felt like mattered most a year ago, matter less. All the things I felt like mattered at least a year ago matter more. I learned so much more about just the way people are living that I wasn't aware of climate crisis and social injustices and, you know, kind of all the bad things. And I think made me think differently. It's not like I wasn't aware, I just learned more and thought about it differently and, you know, was more open to learning. And it's been a crazy year. People think I'm pregnant. A lot of people thought I was pregnant for a second. That I sold my soul to Satan. There's this picture of me like running from my car to my brother's front door on like 110 day degree day in a tank top and everyone's like damn Billie got fat. I'm like nope this is just how I look. You've just never seen it before. So that's like the most current one but whatever. I don't know. I think that's not really for me to decide. I think yeah, the reason people are looking up to you is because you're you. They're not looking up to you so that you'll tell them something that you would never actually tell them. They're looking up to you so that you tell them something that you would tell them yourself. So I love having kids. Kids relate to me and tell me that I make them feel comfortable in their bodies like that if I can do anything I want to do that. So it's really hard to talk about my life and have it not sound like I'm bragging. Sometimes I'll catch myself in a conversation with someone acting like I'm in an interview, and in interviews you're trained to talk about yourself and not ask the other person about themselves. And so I'll catch myself in conversations where I'm like shit like I'm not being interviewed. I'm acting like I'm being interviewed instead of acting like I'm talking to a human being. Such a good point I will never stop talking about that. I'm glad that I was definitely aware of it a year ago. I feel so much better about it now. I was so insecure about where I was. So I felt like I was always having to prove like what I did and what I do and like who I am or whatever. But something about it getting bigger and bigger makes me almost more comfortable not proving myself. For a while now I've been really having an identity crisis a little. I think it was December. I did some like radio show performance, and the entire show I felt like I was pretending to be Billie Eilish. Like I felt I completely wasn't looking at myself as myself. I was just like totally seeing it from not my own perspective and it was so weird. Happened multiple times at like award shows and whatever. I just felt like a parody of myself. I've felt a little bit better about it lately just like you forget like I'm literally 18. It's funny that I'm expected to have found myself and stick with it. You know it's like, you know, I'm having, I'm trying different things out. I'm trying different ways of living and styles and personalities, and, you know, hairstyles and clothing and shoes and like I'm just trying it all out because I'm like a growing fucking girl. I've definitely had like moments of like reaching out to a couple people but every time I do it I kind of like stop myself because I'm like this is. So weird. You know, I've had some conversations with Bieber about this where we just, you know, talk about the craziness of our lives and whatever like Ariana's been really cool about stuff. Those are some people that I feel like have really shown me support and like, you know, even like Katy Perry told me that I could reach out to her whenever and talk about it because it's crazy. And, you know, that's really important and I think it's good. God has said it to me before. It's, you know, it's nice to to hear from people that like have gone through this and know what it's like and went through the shit of it and went through the amazing parts of it. And it's like it's nice to hear people with me. But at the same time like no matter like how many people are there for you and have gone through similar things. It's like, nothing ever happens twice. A tattoo maybe, no face tattoos. The only two tattoos I want to get are the ones that barely anyone could see. I did get a tattoo. But you won't ever see it. I did what I said I do what you expect. Okay, well I looked at my phone, that's what I did. This morning when I woke up I looked to my phone. I think I made myself a burrito for breakfast with a gluten-free tortilla. I woke up and then pooped. [Billie laughing] That's what I did. Hey it's the first thing I did dude. You asked I looked at my phone, that's what I did. I looked at my phone classic day. Face recognition like there's no home button. What the heck? They've made monograms crazy. What the hell is a monogram? A hologram is what I meant. It's crazy that you can charge your phone by like putting it on that little disc. Robots dog like please. Robots doing stuff. Let's leave the robots in the lab. Don't let them come out here. Honestly the news is so bad I can't even, oh yeah, Beyonce had some twins and she still looks fly. Okay Lonnie's pregnant Greta Thundberg honestly. She's been kicking people's ass. Literally that Trump might lose [laughs] like that and that's not even a guarantee. I guess a positive thing would be that a lot of people that say that they've never voted are voting for the first time. That is huge news. We have hope at least is what I want to say. I think that gives us some hope, that gives us something and maybe an opportunity to get better. I'm pretty afraid of people dying, not me dying but like the people around me dying. The people I love dying. Or being, you know, fatally injured or, you know, some sort of brain damage. It's just something that would try and change them drastically or yeah that would really be. That's yeah. That's probably my biggest fear is the people I love like dying. It's tough because that at the time was like kind of an irrational fear, that was kind of just like an overthinking fear. And now it's actually a real thing to fear because people are losing their loved ones and now it's like actually a real possibility. So it's just about staying safe. Honestly same for a year from now because I don't know what will have happened in a year, and that is in itself it's terrifying especially with like the unknown of what next year looks like. Being apple's up next artist. I did Ellen last week Jimmy Fallon, so many festivals. I just sold out a headlining Arena tour, had a number one single biggest selling album of the year. Five grummies, one, two, three, four, five. Performed at the Oscars. Met like every celebrity that's ever existed and it was the most overwhelming insane surreal thing I've ever experienced. I went to the brits. I won a brit. It was amazing, I performed, we recorded the bond theme song working with Hans Zimmer and the orchestra to record it completely surreal and amazing. I started my world Arena tour, and then, you know, the world kind of died but before that, you know, it was quite a year. It started off very strong, then other things happen and, you know, we went to tons of protests. We fought for people, that was a big thing this year too. Huge accomplishment I feel like and we will never stop fighting. I will never stop fighting for you Brianna. I will never stop fighting for all the black and brown people that have lost their lives to police brutality. And literally just racism never gonna stop fighting for you ever, ever, ever. I will do what I can and I stand by that. You know I have such a huge platform like why would I want to waste that. Yeah it's easier to say nothing but it's like that's not gonna help anything and it's not gonna I don't know I don't get the point of silence. I think it's there's a difference between silence and processing and I think that that is like an a big thing that people need to understand is that you got to think through what you're going to say, say it in the right way. I think it's really important to speak up but also be respectful. You know, it's been a year of just trying to speak up for everything you believe in and fight really hard. You know, there's nothing else to do like why wait until you experience it to fight for it. You know what I'm saying like just fight for it. Already I hope that it we have more years of fighting and I hope that something fucking changes. [upbeat music] Brockhampton Tierra Whack is sick. My favorite artist is Techno. I've been loving some Arlo parks. Honestly Ash Nico has some slams like I can't even lie to you I fucking love the strokes album that came out. The most recent one take talk songs are burned into my brain but, you know, it is what it is. That's what 2020 is. Some of them are good those, right? So I'm, you know, whatever. My family. I'm always talking to my family always. Every second of my life, my mom and dad still come on tour with me, Phineas still comes on tour with me, every day. Pretty much every day. We're always together, always talking, always, you know, whatever. It's great. I love my family. I am so lucky to have my family right now. Not only with me but like swell and alive. It's been fun, it's been good. It's been good. You know what I'm about to say. Fruitvale Station. I am single and about to turn a tingle. For the first time in my life I don't feel the need to be with anyone. I don't have my eyes on anyone. I'm not in the mood and I'm totally fine with that. Same shit, yes. Oh my gosh, that's my favorite part of the last video. I'm in pretty much the same place. I don't have a boyfriend and I'm happy like I'm not worried at all. I love it. I'm not opposed to anything. I'm not, you know, pushing anything away or forcing something. I'm just like steady and cool with it which is great. So it's a good place. I'm still with 17 year old Billie. Fashion is like the main one. I love fashion. I always have. I want to direct videos. I want to have my own clothing line. I want to have my own everything. Lots of cars. [Billie laughing] Such a car nut little girl. That's super cute. Well once again I did it. Yeah, fashion is still my expression. I definitely am not as like interested as I used to be in designing as much as I was because I think there are more things that I like doing than designing and kind of like curating and stuff but I still am like very in charge of my clothes. And I have a clothing brand. So there you go a little blush. I direct my own videos Billie. I do. Yes, you got what you wanted. I used to think the industry sucked because I was miserable and it wasn't my team's fault it was just where I was at the time, and that's why I thought that it was that. I just feel like the industry is thought of as this like whole cult type thing. It's like this big like I always see these shit trolls online like the industry is where all the people sell their souls to the devil. Like whoa that's very taking it far like the fucking people in my comment section holy shit. [Billie laughing] So true. I feel the same way. Everybody's kind of like made to to hear like the industry and go like fuck the industry. You know, for some people it's totally true. Some people have terrible, terrible experiences. I had a couple experiences where I was like this is some bullshit but it's not like the industry does it it's just the people around you. And I also have been really lucky to have the team that I have and that I have had since the beginning. And yeah, there's some weirdos like there's some weirdos and there's some weirdo group of groups of people that you just kind of gotta get away from. But it's just about knowing your people and knowing your boundaries and like who you trust and stuff. I want to learn that it's all worth it because it's tiring as heck. The shows make it worth it. The shows and the supporters. I was taking it for granted and I that makes me really mad and I don't want to be and I just was. So true. Yes it's worth it for sure. Absolutely worth it. Absolutely, I would not change it for anything else. I can finally say that it's worth it. But you can't just be like expecting it to be worth it. You gotta like change some stuff around. Make sure you're happy, make sure you got what you need and then it will be worth it, yes. Having the approach that no one's had. Trying to write something no one's written. See that's why I'm still bad at it because that's what I was trying to do. I kind of have no idea what to expect. Like last year I thought I knew what people would like for my album and I thought I knew like what would be popular and how so wrong. [Billie laughing] I have gotten so much better at it. I feel so much more confident in my writing. I feel like I know myself better. I'm better at advocating my opinions and communicating and I think Phineas and I have just like seriously just like really gotten in the groove. We do it so fast like there was like a period of time like a month ago or something I was just like we were just texting the label like song done, another song done, another song done. So I'm so much better at it. I'm so I love it so much more. I actually really do enjoy it now and I do feel like I'm pretty good at it now to be honest with you. Like 12 I think maybe like 14 actually. I think there's like 14 ish. Blank, blank, blank, blank like four and a half. Right now I have 16. We've been working and I love them all. I love all of them. The first month I was incredibly uninspired. I don't know why. I think it was just very overwhelming and scary and I think after like that first period of time when it came and went. I got so inspired and creative and like just like made music that I don't think I would have made. My brother and I like I don't think we would have even made it at all this year. Judge me please. I don't and then one word, fucking no. It's my style, Billie Eilish parody is my style. My brother is my best friend. My brother is my best friend. My best friend is Phineas, but he is also my brother. We got drew, we got Zoe, we got Laura, we got shark we got my family, my brother those is my best friends. Maybe like once a week. I might be safe if I go to Trader Joe's. I went to Trader Joe's did not work. I also tried Costco which I thought I'd be safe at and that didn't work. Fuck sake. Public what is that? Public I have not been in at all since March 11th. There were definitely moments in this quarantine where I forgot that I'm me. I was taking shark to like a dog play group with the rescue place that I got him from. You know, I was like I didn't even think about it because we had so much nothing for so long. I didn't even think about it. I had like my full, like green, like right there full, like, you know, wasn't covering anything except obviously a mask, and I was like walking in and there was this car full of people. And they were like, and I literally like looked behind me I was like, what are you looking at? I forgot. Totally forgot, but it was nice. It was really nice to see people like before COVID at all like I don't go in public anyway just because it's a complete disaster. Yeah, it's a bad idea to do but I have googled myself. Only just the titles because they're what's funny. Like I'm not trying to see myself on like twitter that is a no-go. Oh, my gosh. Don't want to see that because that shit is mean. I look myself up to like laugh but I really don't want to actually see what's being said. But it's good for a good laugh. I don't know if I'm more confident I just think I know what I'm doing more. I think I'm less confident actually. I feel like I'm probably the most confident I've ever been in my life. I don't think I've ever been more confident than I am now. Yep, totally true that first year I was definitely just like not even thinking about myself. So I wasn't even thinking about confidence. We all know that second year was [laughs] rough. Last year, yeah, I definitely was the most confident I've ever been last year. I think that's still probably the most confident. I haven't like gone down at all. I just think it pretty much like stayed right there. COVID has made me less confident in myself just because it's made me stop doing the things I was used to doing and got good at. But it's mostly stayed the same. I'm not like not confident but I definitely was really at my peak a year ago. I was really peaking. Happy, happy girl. I would tell 16 year old me to remember who her best friends are and remember who the people that care about her the most are and not throw them away for somebody else or for something else. That it's hard knowing the situations that I was talking about. God how do you prepare someone for this year? I think all I would say is just like enjoy this. Don't take anything for granted. Don't ever come off stage during this year and think I didn't really like that show, I didn't really. Nope, and by the way I'm never doing that again. When shows are allowed, every show is going to be the best show I've ever done. That's that. Sure come here, come here. Give me yourself, give me your butt. Alright, bring in the mom. This is my mom. She is sick as a booty. - I don't mind I can stay here that long. - I love you. - I love you too. - Hello baby. - His grandma. - I love you so much. - I love you so much. - I miss being on the road with her and I miss seeing her do her shows because she's so incredible, but I have loved being home with her. - Don't take your parents for granted people. [crowd clapping]
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